* Thomas Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-23 08:00]:
> If you still want to use a script but don't want to eat
> <filesize> * <structure overhead> and IO every invocation, you'll want
> to seek to somewhere random in the file and read until you get a
> complete line, ala (in Ruby):
>
> begin
> File.open(file) do |f|
> f.seek(rand(File.size(file)))
> f.gets
> puts f.gets
> end
> rescue EOFError
> retry
> end
>
> This will, however, guarantee the first line will never be read, and
> choose longer lines over shorter ones.
I have a fortune file (standard strfile format) that I use, and
occasionally my vi modeline (line 1) comes up as a fortune. This is an
ideal solution... ;)
(darren)
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